War

[Endie]

I like POS warfare, too.  The whole Maximum Damage thing is because Bob watched us and worked out the advantage of what we were doing: POS warfare lets you find something that the enemy has to defend.  So you get a fight.  A delicious, six-hour-long, non-stop fight that shows up as "Lady Scarlet" (that is, a massive blob that follows goons around) with 500 kills.

And 30 seconds module lag is for pussies.  You have noooo idea how bad it can get in a system which CCP didn't expect a massive fleet fight in..  But you learn to manage it, to play ahead and to get kills anyway.  Flying anti-support in several minutes of module lag, not dying, and getting tons'o'kills takes a knack.

[Slayerik]

Sorry, to me that still doesn't sound fun. To each is own, of course.

[Phildo]

What if we let you nano a Moros?

[Slayerik]

What if we let you nano a Moros?

Now you are on to something.

[Ninja Sportz]

What if we let you nano a Moros?

now that would be interesting....

[Fordel]

Is that even possible? How fast COULD you get a Moros going ?

[apocrypha]

Is that even possible? How fast COULD you get a Moros going ?

With some silly EFT'ing I can't get anything higher than 488m/s. But I could be doing it wrong.

[Endie]

Is that even possible? How fast COULD you get a Moros going ?

With some silly EFT'ing I can't get anything higher than 488m/s. But I could be doing it wrong.

OK, I got it up to 1136 m/s, with:

Lows
2 nanofibers (domi or II, doesn't matter I think)
5 domination overdrive injectors
Mids
1 Tobias' Modified 100MN Microwarpdrive
4 erm, utility slots (drone links and comedy shield tank?)
Highs
Two salvagers and two tractors, natch.

Implants:
Slots 1-6 HG Snakes
Slot 7 Shaqil's Speed Enhancer
Slot 8 Zor's Custom Navigation Hyper-Link
Slot 9 Can't see anything that increases speed
Slot 10 Rogue MY-2

Gang bonuses:
Claymore pilot with skirmish warfare gang modules and mindlink

Is that fast enough to outrun a heavy dictor in focussed beam mode?  Not that it matters hugely since you can be tackled by anything and don't even have a smartbomb.  But think of the salvage!

Edit: That also had rigs, of course: 2xT2 Poly-carbs and 1xT1 Polycarb.

[bhodi]

But just think what kind of bumper that would make!

[apocrypha]

Oh I totally forgot about implants!

Man that'd be the best comedy killmail ever :)

[Ninja Sportz]

that would be epic bumps....

[Slayerik]

The time it would take to get to that speed would be like 5 minutes hehe

I tried throwing a 100mn MWD on a Myrmidon once, and the additional mass added from the MWD made it accelerate at a snail's pace. I'm assuming the mass on the Moros would be way high already.

[kildorn]

Is that even possible? How fast COULD you get a Moros going ?

With some silly EFT'ing I can't get anything higher than 488m/s. But I could be doing it wrong.

OK, I got it up to 1136 m/s, with:

Lows
2 nanofibers (domi or II, doesn't matter I think)
5 domination overdrive injectors
Mids
1 Tobias' Modified 100MN Microwarpdrive
4 erm, utility slots (drone links and comedy shield tank?)
Highs
Two salvagers and two tractors, natch.

Implants:
Slots 1-6 HG Snakes
Slot 7 Shaqil's Speed Enhancer
Slot 8 Zor's Custom Navigation Hyper-Link
Slot 9 Can't see anything that increases speed
Slot 10 Rogue MY-2

Gang bonuses:
Claymore pilot with skirmish warfare gang modules and mindlink

Is that fast enough to outrun a heavy dictor in focussed beam mode?  Not that it matters hugely since you can be tackled by anything and don't even have a smartbomb.  But think of the salvage!

Did you rig that bastard? 

[Slayerik]

Tech II Polyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyys

[Phildo]

When I train up for dreads, I will fit that if you help me pay for it.

[Endie]

Tech II Polyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyys

Oops, I also fitted two poly IIs and one Poly I.  I'll update the post.

[lac]

Sooo, can anybody dig up some dirt on the proceedings in the north, the titan + bpo theft or something else mildly dramatic yet entertaining?

[Phildo]

Eve-O thread about the AAA/IAC war (courtesy of a friend in BotS)

[lac]

The brave northern coalition jumps their caps into a larger bob cap blob.

ouch

Apparently they lost 3 MS, one killmail didn't generate. The biggest MS loss in a single engagement so far.

[Raventongue]

it goes to show that those with the biggest and most expensive ships are not always the best tacticians.

[Simond]

Dos vydanya, RA.

[Calantus]

Awesome a war update. Do it agian. With content this time.

Seriously though, this War thread is the best part of Eve and probably more fun than actually playing. Now get with the political/war updates.

[Meester]

You want war updates? Ok.

The conflict in Fountain is drawing to a close after The Requiem and co (Cosmic Anomalies, Un-natural Selection..) were reduced to a single station system in PNQY-Y and sovreignity of the system is currently being taken by The Pandemic Legion.

The Band of Brothers and their GBC allies are currently (I believe) shooting Red Alliance or ex-RA towers. Some corporations from Red Alliance have left and have joined AAA or some other alliances that belonged to the RSF.  Feel free to correct and/or add.

[Sparky]

Fountain was awesome fun, we were outnumbered pretty consistently and these guys weren't Bruce useless so it was a real challenge.  A couple of really bad weekends cumulnating in a big PNQ POS spam (shortly before they'd have got Sov 3) seems to have broke their will though.  They'd never knocked down a single PL tower so I didn't think they could beat us but if they'd got Sov 3 it could have been a bugger to shift them.

[Phildo]

Definite confirmation that Reunion corp from RA is flying with AAA now.  We've seen them in FAT a few times flying with red cap blobs.

[Pax]

So, how many titans have Reunion got again?

[Endie]

So, how many titans have Reunion got again?

Some.  The exact number is hazy thanks to individuals heading to different places from corps.  Such is drama.

[TheDreamr]

Stuck at work and hearing rumours NC (more specifically IRON) have added to their current woes by managing to lose a titan in Dek yesterday, presumably this happened overnight as I wasn't aware titan loses were so common nobody mentions them anymore.

Between the recent mothership losses, RA falling back and a new  front opening up in the drone regions it seems to me (as a relatively neutral observer) that Dek is pretty much a lost cause.

[Pax]

Indeed, two different non-GBC titans were involved in the battle of VFK-.

One was playing in-and-out-of-shield games inside a cyno jammer pos and nuked its own pos gunners in the process.
The other had been scanned down at a safe spot prior to the invasion - as soon it logged on and warped back to its safe spot it got tackled.

A battle report can be found here.

[TheDreamr]

Thanks for the link, I'm speechless ... assuming that COAD is remotely accurate (ha!) then it sounds like NC have taken some very significant capital and super-capital loses, even before we start talking about titans.

While I've been following NC's progress in Dek, I don't really know that much detail about the bigger picture -- I'm assuming the only option left for NC is fall back to drones (not the most popular of places to start with), fight a defensive war against solar and xxx and hope none of the likely suspects interfere now they've been left with a lot of spare time on their hands.

[Meester]

Thanks for the link, I'm speechless ... assuming that COAD is remotely accurate (ha!) then it sounds like NC have taken some very significant capital and super-capital loses, even before we start talking about titans.

While I've been following NC's progress in Dek, I don't really know that much detail about the bigger picture -- I'm assuming the only option left for NC is fall back to drones (not the most popular of places to start with), fight a defensive war against solar and xxx and hope none of the likely suspects interfere now they've been left with a lot of spare time on their hands.

I wouldn't get carried away too much as Deklein is only one region and hasn't been taken yet.

Its not like the NC = Deklein & Drone Regions. Morsus Mihi also loses motherhsips (and other assorted capitals) like Requiem & Co got through carriers. Who knows how many they have got. However the NC should probably learn how to attack and not keep defending like a bunch of carebears. I would leave Hydra to get sluaghtered by Triumvirate too.

[Slayerik]

One thing about Dek is , there are some nice moons hangin around.


Otherwise noone would give a fuck about it.

The key to eve when your alliiance isn't strong is, hold space taht noon cares about. ;)

[Phildo]

It seems like Reunion corp has decided to try and pry FAT from Vanguard.  They've anchored 5 towers in the station systems there in the last two days and reinforced several friendly POSes including Bat Country's very own deathstar.  The next few weeks look to be a very interesting time for us.

[Endie]

It seems like Reunion corp has decided to try and pry FAT from Vanguard.  They've anchored 5 towers in the station systems there in the last two days and reinforced several friendly POSes including Bat Country's very own deathstar.  The next few weeks look to be a very interesting time for us.

I'm in a fucking tent in the highlands and *I* know that 25s and FAT are being taken as a base for the new attack on Querious vOv

Vanguard was just incredibly unlucky in their timing.

[Phildo]

For the second time this weekend, -A- were able to get an enemy's POS password and detonate a doomsday inside the shields.  Their spies are dilligent.

It appears that sov in FAT will revert to Tercios after downtime, no telling why -A- hasn't hit their POSes in the area yet.